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Data Center Decommissioning and IT Asset DispositionThu, 17 May 2018 22:10:50 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.5Impacts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on Data-Driven Businesseshttps://itrenew.com/blog/impacts-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr-data-driven-businesses/
https://itrenew.com/blog/impacts-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr-data-driven-businesses/#respondTue, 15 May 2018 18:09:05 +0000https://itrenew.com/?p=411The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted on April 14th in the European Union. The GDPR deals with the data privacy of EU citizens, but also applies globally: It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The GDPR aims primarily to give control to citizens and residents over their personal data […]

]]>https://itrenew.com/blog/impacts-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr-data-driven-businesses/feed/0Best Practices in Data Center Decommissioninghttps://itrenew.com/blog/best-practices-data-center-decommissioning/
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 17:10:55 +0000https://itrenew.com/?p=311In the past, we’ve admittedly focused primarily on the “challenges” associated with data center IT asset disposition compared to corporate ITAD. This has included the following viewpoints: Very few companies seek out and use a specialized IT asset disposition solution for data center decommissioning despite the rationale that using a “general ITAD” solution is akin […]

]]>Data Center Decommissioning and Enterprise ITAD: Two Different Playing Fieldshttps://itrenew.com/blog/data-center-corporate-itad-strategies-on-two-different-playing-fields/
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:08:06 +0000https://itrenew.com/?p=339Baseball and cricket. Two seemingly similar bat-and-ball games with a common objective: to score runs while preventing the other team from doing the same. However, the two games bear quite a few differences the closer you look at them: the fields on which they are played, the equipment used to play the games and the […]

]]>Data Center Decommissioning: A Different Kind of ITADhttps://itrenew.com/blog/data-center-decommissioning-different-kind-itad/
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:11:06 +0000http://itrenew.com/?p=1When it comes to IT asset disposition (ITAD), or the process of recovering and safely disposing of obsolete or unwanted IT equipment and business technology, in theory data center decommissioning should be no different than decommissioning any other type of enterprise IT asset. The data center, like all areas of the corporate enterprise, has IT […]

]]>Data Erasure Certification: Don’t Just Take My Word for Ithttps://itrenew.com/blog/data-erasure-certification-dont-just-take-my-word-for-it/
Mon, 01 May 2017 18:11:10 +0000https://itrenew.com/?p=298Whenever we think of best practices for any procedure, let alone one that is used to protect sensitive hard drive data from unauthorized access, there are two fundamental elements that validate the procedure: Metrics Check and balances Every Certified Six Sigma Black Belt I know would jump at any opportunity to rant why a procedure […]

]]>What Does Data Center Growth Mean for IT Asset Disposition?https://itrenew.com/blog/data-center-growth-mean-asset-disposition/
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:11:37 +0000https://itrenew.com/?p=348For 20 years, I have dedicated my career to the IT industry and the pursuit of growth and innovation in technology has kept me here. Starting out as a quality engineer at Iomega Corporation (who remembers Zip drives?) taught me one very important lesson: that growth and innovation isn’t constant, its variable. Like a biological ecosystem, […]

]]>Channeling Growth: ITRenew Taps Data Center and IT Veteran to Lead Global Sales Initiativeshttps://itrenew.com/blog/channeling-growth-itrenew-taps-data-center-and-it-veteran-to-lead-global-sales-initiatives/
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:10:28 +0000https://itrenew.com/?p=317ITRenew, an industry leader in IT asset disposition (ITAD) services and data sanitization software for large-scale data center decommissioning, today announced that it has hired Jim Harris as Vice President of Global Sales. Harris, who brings more than a decade experience managing sales programs for the world’s largest hardware, software and data center service providers, will oversee direct sales and […]

]]>3 Vulnerabilities of SSD Data Sanitizationhttps://itrenew.com/blog/3-vulnerabilities-ssd-data-sanitization/
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:10:03 +0000https://itrenew.com/?p=329Since the inception of NAND flash-based storage devices, there have been a number of studies and many debates about the integrity of flash including: what is the appropriate method of destroying data stored on NAND flash memory components? With flash, there are variables which obstruct a simple approach of overwriting the medium with a basic or […]